Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPhilip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Episode 261
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men a…
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Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
Episode 96
Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply…
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Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 500
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But aft…
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Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
Episode 217
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture d…
2 years, 2 months ago
Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 91
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in…
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Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
Episode 128
Sex. Lies. Murder. Sarah Horowitz's The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All (Sourcebooks, 2022) is a book I literally…
2 years, 2 months ago
Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Episode 233
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten.
Dr Leah B…
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Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Episode 147
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 223
How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation mean…
2 years, 2 months ago
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
Episode 102
Despite being one of the most influential women of 17th century France, Marie de Vignerot has been largely forgotten. The niece, heiress, and advisor…
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